From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Menus with more items than the TTY can display Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:00:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83txgnr8m3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a9igrqq1.fsf@gnu.org> <5257EA1C.3030000@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381514429 12945 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2013 18:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, dmoncayo@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 11 20:00:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUh0p-0005FE-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:00:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUh0p-0000rJ-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUh0i-0000qL-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUh0c-0001PD-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:47471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUh0c-0001Op-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUI00M00N7ISN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:00:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUI00MU0NCGM050@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:00:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164107 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > Emacs development discussions , > Dani Moncayo > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:49:35 -0400 > > > Plus, I think that the menu should not overwrite modeline, like on > > But I disagree on this one, especially since the frame might be split > into many windows, so the "closest" modeline may be very close to the > top of the frame. Right. > I do agree that the echo area should stay uncovered, so as to be able to > display the help-echo. That is already so. (The original commit didn't do that, but then I discovered that almost every menu item has help-echo, and the menu item that covers the echo area is mostly invisible anyway. So now we limit the menu one line before the echo area.)